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Anti-police protesters
fill downtown streets
Many protesters identified themselves as Beal high school students
Marchers got support from many passing motorists, pedestrians
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news

City to host
kickboxing
competition
World championship kickboxing comes to town Saturday night as the London
Convention Centre hosts
Showdown in the
Downtown.
In the International
Kingboxing Federation
middleweight
championship,
Burlington’s Muzammal
Nawaz, 42, defends his title
against 31-year-old
Shannon (The Cannon)
Hudson of Lyman, S.C.
London’s Brad Fowler,
40, will put his super-welterweight belt on the line
against 39-year-old Mike
Morello of Santa Barbara,
Calif.
The action is slated to
begin at 5:30 p.m.
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Jaz Bennett, 17, a Grade 12 student at H.B. Beal Secondary School, centre, holds the bullhorn he used to talk to police
yesterday during a protest outside the London Police Service headquarters on Dundas Street. Students from
Beal organized the protest, which took them through downtown and included a stop at city hall, to speak out
about a Thursday incident during which police used a stun gun to subdue Bennett during a ﬁght.

ANGELA
MULLINS

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About 100 people took to
downtown streets yesterday to protest what they
dubbed “police brutality”
against 17-year-old Jaz Bennett.
Bennett, a Grade 12 student at H.B. Beal Secondary School, said he was
shocked by a stun gun as
police broke up a fight
Thursday near the school.
He walked along with the
protesters, at times trailing several blocks behind
and holding his chest
where one of the Taser
prongs entered to his body.
“I got jumped. I was defending myself,” he said

Finding
fault with
protesters
Not everyone was stirred
to action by yesterday’s

about last week’s fight,
which resulted in assault
with a weapon charges
against him. “I felt relieved
to see the officers (arrive
on scene).”
The stun-gun use, he
said, was “completely
wrong.”
The roving protest lasted several hours, making
its way from Beal high
school to police headquarters — Dundas and Adelaide streets — before
heading west to the downtown core and northeast to
city hall. The number of
participants began to wane
as the group circled back
east through downtown,
but the marchers snarled
traffic at several intersections.

Some of the more tense
moments came early on as
the mob stopped in front
of the police station.
There, three police officers
lined the front steps and
others stood guard nearby.
Several people were
warned that stepping off
the sidewalk and onto the
steps constituted trespassing. Many responded by
yelling obscenities at the
officers as someone on a
bullhorn demanded they
defend their actions.
The officers stood stonefaced as pig squeals were
blasted over a loud speaker
and the crowd chanted
“Shame on you,” “Stop the
police” and “F--k the police.” Police officials did
not respond to a request

for comment later in the
day. They said last week
the use of force was justified.
A Thames Valley District
School Board official also
did not respond to a request for comment.
Maha Sultan, 18, a student at Beal, was among
the most outspoken.
The crowd became raucous as she waved her
arms, danced and yelled
inches from the officers’
faces.
Speaking later, Sultan
said police use their power
to take advantage of people.
“I’m fighting for them,”
she said of Bennett and
others whom she considers “victims” of police.

police protest.
That included some of
the people participating.
Wesley Demmerling,
17, a Grade 12 student at
H.B. Beal Secondary
School, thought the group
got a little too rowdy at

times and lost its focus. He
was especially worried after he said someone
jumped on a car outside
city hall. “I’m not 100 per
cent happy about the way
this is going down,” Wesley said.

“We’re just here to
make our voices heard.”
Others on downtown
streets yelled at the
protesters, saying, “Show
some respect” and “Grow
up” as they walked by.
ANGELA MULLINS

Middlesex
touts event
devoted to
nursing
In advance of world
breastfeeding week, the
Middlesex-London Health
Unit is encouraging breastfeeding mothers and their
families and supporters to
attend an event at Covent
Garden Market on
Saturday from 9:30 to
11:30 a.m.
The event will feature a
breastfeeding tent,
children’s activities, light
refreshments, giveaways
and door prizes. METRO

Veteran to
speak about
his life
Cpl. Mark Fuchko will address the Canadian Club of
London on Thursday, sharing his experiences as a
veteran of the Canadian
Armed Forces. Tickets can
be purchased at canadiancluboflondon.ca.
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New strategy will make roads safer: City
ANGELA MULLINS/METRO

Project would include looking at
deaths, injuries on area roads Cost
of accidents would also be analyzed
ANGELA
MULLINS

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City administrators are
looking for city council’s
blessing
to
spend
$200,000 to make streets
safer for drivers, pedestrians and cyclists.
The money would pay
for a consultant to crunch
data about accidents in
the city. From that data,
city officials will be able
to decide what kind of
traffic controls — like
cameras on red lights or
adjusting speed limits —
and education programs
could make roads less
dangerous.
Officials started discussing the issue after the
city council heard traffic
concerns from the public,
said John Lucas, acting director of roads and transportation.
“We have to look at the
numbers and find out
what … the major issues
(are) and figure out how to
address them,” Lucas said.

Dubbed the London
Road Safety Strategy, several groups — many of
which have their own accident data and safety programs — will partner with
the city on the effort.
Overall, Lucas said, the
strategy will focus on the
E’s: education, engineering and enforcement.
City council is expected
to consider spending money for the program at its
Monday meeting.
After that, councillors
would have to approve
hiring a consultant, Lucas
said. The number crunching is expected to take
about a year.

Vehicles speed through the intersection of York and Talbot streets yesterday. City administrators
are asking for the city council’s blessing to spend $200,000 on a study that would determine what
kind of traﬃc controls would make streets safer for drivers, pedestrians and cyclists.

Police now involved in banana investigation
DAVE CHIDLEY/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Officials with the JLC say
they’re getting closer to
identifying the person responsible for throwing a
banana at a black player
during an NHL exhibition
game in London last week.
London police also confirmed yesterday afternoon they’ve launched an
investigation of their own.
“We did receive some
information in regards to
the possible subject, but
it’s still too early to say in
the investigation to say
whether it’s good informa-

tion or information that’s
reliable.”
said
Const.
Amanda Van Doran.
Several tips were received over the weekend,
along with at least two
more yesterday morning.
“People have started to
come forward with some
information and we will be
communicating that with
law enforcement.” said
Chris Campbell, director of
marketing at the John Labatt Centre.
“At this point, there are
no precise details that

Wayne Simmonds of the Philadelphia Flyers

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Dictionaries
An intense workout
for the Fight Gone Bad for Grade 3
Londoners who took up
the Fight Gone Bad have
done good: They’ve raised
more than $7,800 for
prostate-cancer research in
the city.

More than 70 people
competed Sunday in an intense 17-minute workout
as part of an annual worldwide fundraising event.
METRO

we’re going to release, but
we’re actively investigating this internally.”
It’s believed the banana
was thrown from the 300
level, while Campbell said
officials have identified
“an area of focus.”
When asked if tips received over the past several days appear to be
pointing toward the same
individual, Campbell said:
“They would seem to be,
but, again, I can’t comment further.”

students

Grade 3 students in 17 London area schools will
receive 553 free dictionaries, thanks to the Rotary

For information
hydeparkrotary.org or
Sue.storie@sympatico.ca

Club of London-Hyde Park.
Beginning in October, Rotarians and volunteers will
start distributing the
dictionaries. METRO

The incident
In Thursday’s NHL exhibition game between the
Philadelphia Flyers and the
Detroit Red Wings at the
John Labatt Centre, someone threw a banana at the
Flyers’ Wayne Simmonds,
who is black, during a
shootout.
Anyone with information
is still being encouraged to
call the JLC at 519-6675700.

More than 100 protesters
climbed over a fence
police erected on
Parliament Hill yesterday
and then sat peacefully,
waiting to be arrested.
Greenpeace, the Council of Canadians and
Indigenous Environmental Network organized the
protest against the development of the tarsands
and pipelines that carry
Canadian oil to the U.S.
It was modelled after
the Keystone XL pipeline
protests outside the White
House and getting arrested was part of the plan
from the beginning,
organizers said.
RCMP Sgt. Marc Menard
said more than 100
protesters were arrested
for obstructing police, but
ultimately only given a
provincial offence notice
for trespassing.
“I’m actually missing

JESSICA SMITH/METRO

$65

The protesters who
jumped the fence in
front of Centre Block
were handcuﬀed
with plastic zip ties,
booked and given a
ticket for $65 for
trespassing.
the class I teach at the
University of Toronto,”
said Keith Stewart, after
he climbed over the fence.
“Right now, my students
are in class.”
Asked why he was willing to be arrested, he said,
“I’ve been writing
environmental policy and
lobbying politicians for
over a decade, and that’s
not doing anything. And
I’ve got a daughter.”
Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver defended
the oilsands and the Keystone pipeline.
He said the pipeline
would generate $600 billion in economic activity.

Blaine Cameron, who uses a wheelchair, is carried over a security fence on
Parliament Hill by his fellow protesters yesterday.

Typhoon Nesat hits northern Philippines
A
powerful
typhoon
slammed ashore the northern Philippines early Tuesday, local time, unleashing
floods, cutting power and
halting work in the capital,
Manila, where residents
waded in waist-deep waters and strong winds toppled trees.
Authorities
ordered
more than 100,000 people
to shelter from rains and
wind gusts of up to 170

kilometres per hour. At
least one person — a baby
— drowned and four fishermen were reported missing.
Typhoon Nesat made
landfall before dawn over
eastern mountainous Isabela
and
Aurora
provinces which face the
Pacific Ocean, packing sustained winds of 140 kph,
the government weather
bureau said.

Canadians can
breathe easy: WHO
A new study from the
World Health Organization suggests the air quality in Canadian cities is
among the best urban air
in the world.
In the WHO’s compila-

tion of 91 countries, only
cities in Estonia and Mauritius had cleaner air than
Canada. Mongolia registered the highest average
pollution levels at 279.
THE CANADIAN PRESS

With its immense 650kilometre cloud band, the
typhoon threatened to foul
weather across the entire
main Luzon Island as it
moves across the Philippines toward the South
China Sea late Wednesday
or early Thursday and then
heads toward southern
China.
A
year-old
baby
drowned in the central island province of Catadu-

CBC faces
federal
scrutiny
The Conservatives are
hauling the CBC onto the
carpet this fall to explain
why it is fighting the access-to-information law in
the courts, part of

anes after falling into a river, the government disaster agency reported. Four
fishermen were missing
while more than 50 others
were rescued along eastern
shores after their boats
overturned in choppy seas.
In downtown Manila,
residents waded in waistdeep floodwaters as waves
washed over the seawall
along Manila Bay.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

increased scrutiny of the
public broadcaster’s
spending and practices by
the new majority government.
The move comes at the
same time the Conservative party surveys its
members on whether
CBC funding is good value for the taxpayer.
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Monks self-immolate

ASHWINI BHATIA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Young men allegedly called for religious freedom and said ‘Long live
the Dalai Lama’ before they set themselves on fire in China, says Free Tibet
Two Tibetan monks set
themselves on fire yesterday in a protest over China’s tight rein over
Buddhist
practices,
a
rights group said as the
Chinese government reiterated it will choose the
next Dalai Lama.
The London-based Free
Tibet
campaign
said
Lobsang Kalsang and Lobsang Konchok, both be-

lieved to be 18 or 19 years
old, self-immolated at the
Kirti
Monastery
in
Sichuan province’s Aba
prefecture.
The official Xinhua
News Agency said in a
brief report that did not
identify the monks by
name that both were rescued by police, suffered
slight burns and were in
stable condition.

China has said that religious law requires that
the reincarnation of the
Dalai Lama be born in a
Tibetan area under Chinese control. The Dalai
Lama has said his successor could be born in exile
and has even floated the
idea of choosing his own
successor while still alive
— perhaps even a woman.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Background
China reviles the Dalai
Lama as a separatist, and
wants to pick a pro-Beijing
successor. The Dalai Lama
insists he is only seeking
increased autonomy for Tibet, not independence,
and opposes Beijing’s
involvement in selecting
its leaders.

An exiled Tibetan monk
takes part in a candlelight vigil
in Dharmsala, India, as people
react to news reports of
self-immolation by two Tibetan
monks at the Kirti Monastery in
China’s Sichuan province yesterday.

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NEW DEAL

Netflix nails
rights to
DreamWorks
Netflix unveiled a
coming attraction yesterday: the Internet video
rights to films and television specials from
DreamWorks Animation.
The multi-year deal
will give Netflix Inc.’s
streaming service the exclusive rights to show the
latest content from
DreamWorks, the studio

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Self-serve shopping
lanes checking out

behind Shrek, Kung Fu
Panda and Madagascar.
But the rights don’t kick
in until 2013.
Complaints could escalate when Netflix loses
the streaming rights to
Walt Disney Co. movies
and other films through a
licensing deal it had with
Starz Entertainment.
Still, the deal
represents a badly needed coup for Netflix,
which has been reeling
from customer backlash
due to sharp price
increases and a change to
its DVD-by-mail service.

Lower gas prices a
letdown for drivers
Gasoline prices are expected to inch a bit lower the
rest of the year, but not as
much as motorists would
hope, an energy consultant
said yesterday, blaming the
weaker loonie.
“The loonie has been a
great buffer for the consumer as oil prices increased,”
said
Roger
McKnight, with En-Pro In-

ternational. “The opposite
is happening right now.”
World oil prices are set
in U.S. dollars so a rising
loonie against the greenback offsets part of the impact of higher crude prices.
But, the latest slide in the
loonie means a raw deal for
consumers who buy gasoline with weaker Canadian
dollars. THE CANADIAN PRESS

A customer uses a self-serve checkout station at a Big Y
supermarket in Manchester, Conn.

Apple fights
Samsung on
patents
Samsung asked a Dutch
court yesterday to slap an
injunction on Apple Inc. to
prevent it from selling
iPhones and iPad tablets in
the Netherlands, saying Apple does not have licences
to use 3G mobile technolo-

Banks
advised to
supervise
Canadian financial institutions should not be complacent even though they
fared better than their international peers during
the financial crisis, the su-

When Keith Wearne goes
grocery shopping, checking out with a cashier is
worth the extra moments,
rather than risking that a
self-serve machine might
go awry and delay him
more.
Most shoppers side
with Wearne, studies
show. With that in mind,
some U.S. grocery-store
chains are bagging the doit-yourself option, once
considered the wave of
the future, for customer
service.
“It’s just more interactive,” Wearne said. “You
get someone who says
hello; you get a person to
talk to if there’s a problem.”
Big Y Foods, which has
61 locations in Connecticut and Massachusetts, recently became one of the
latest to announce it was
phasing out the self-serve
lanes. Some other regional chains and major players,
including
some
Albertsons, have also reduced unstaffed lanes,
adding more clerks.
Market studies cited by
the Arlington, Va.-based
Food Marketing Institute
found only 16 per cent of

Chain reaction
Supermarket chains started introducing self-serve
chains about 10 years ago.
Self-serve lanes were
touted as an easy way for
shoppers to scan their
own items’ bar codes, bag
their bounty and head on
their way.
Retailers anticipated
labour savings, potentially
reducing the number of
cashier shifts as they
encouraged shoppers to
do it themselves.
Some shoppers loved
them and others were uninterested or outraged.
A Big Y internal study
found delays in its selfserve lines caused by customer confusion over
coupons and payments.
Other problems include
intentional or accidental
theft, including
misidentification of
produce and baked goods
for less-expensive items.

supermarket transactions
in 2010 were done at selfcheckout lanes. That’s
down from a high of 22
per cent three years ago.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

gy in the devices.
The legal battle is the latest round in a series of
claims and counterclaims
of patent breaches by the rival companies playing out
in courtrooms around the
world.
Samsung Electronics Co.
lawyer Bas Berghuis told a
civil judge that Apple “never bothered to ask about licences” before it started
selling 3G-enabled iPhones

that use the Universal Mobile Telecommunications
Standard (UMTS).
Apple argues that because UMTS technology has
been adopted as the industry standard for mobile
telecommunications, Samsung is obliged to offer licences for patents that
underpin the standard on
“fair,
reasonable
and
nondiscriminatory” terms.

perintendent of the agency
that oversees Canada’s
banks warned yesterday.
“Regulatory policy-makers must also recognize that
capital rules are only effective if they are accompanied
by
enhanced
supervision,” Julie Dickson,
who heads the Office of the
Superintendent of Financial

Institution, told the Economic Club of Canada in
Toronto.
Dickson also urged Canadian banks to guard against
loosening historical underwriting standards in a race
to compete with other
lenders as low interest rates
entice customers to borrow
more. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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TRANSIT CAN
BE A REAL
PICK-ME-UP
I hate to drive.
Maybe I liked it for a few
months back when I was 16
and my learner’s permit
JESSICA NAPIER
meant a newfound sense of
METRO
independence, but these days
I just don’t see the appeal.
Don’t get me wrong. I am not a terrible
driver — or at least, I’d like to think I’m
not. Sure there has been the odd fender
bender and one unfortunate speeding
ticket when I was 18 but nothing too
traumatic. I understand the rules of the
road and am certainly physically capable of driving from
A to B. I’m just not very fond of it.
When I am behind the wheel, I am permanently on
edge. I get heart palpitations at the first sign of
inclement weather, and the combination of speeding
cabs, weaving bicyclists and jaywalking pedestrians
sends my nerves into overdrive. I hate the overly aggressive road ragers and the lost hours spent staring at
break lights in a traffic jam.
I actually prefer taking
“Sitting on a bus public transportation, even
or train gives me on its slowest, smelliest
and most uncomfortable
time to myself;
days. Not because I can’t aftime to sleep, to ford to drive, or because I
read and to stare am an environmental crusader, but because, for me,
inappropriately
it’s just so much easier.
at attractive
Sitting on a bus or train
strangers. Public gives me time to myself;
time to sleep, to read and
transit is
to stare inappropriately at
empowering —
attractive strangers. Public
bus drivers don’t transit is empowering —
bus drivers don’t care
care when I’m
when I’m intoxicated and
intoxicated and
they let me check my
they let me
phone for text messages
check my phone whenever I want.
As a non-driver, I am exfor text
empt from all of the monemessages
tary costs associated with
car ownership. I don’t have
whenever I
to worry about repairs or
want.”
parking and I admittedly
have no concept of how
much car insurance costs (but I hear it’s horrendous).
And while the occasional fare increase will irk me for a
month or two, it is nothing compared to the daily emotional roller coaster that results from the fluctuation of
crude oil prices.
I know mass transit isn’t always the fastest or most
convenient way to travel, and I’m not immune to the
eye-rolling frustrations of yet another late bus or stalled
train. But most of the time I can breathe deeply and get
over it because I want to believe that the benefits of
communal commuting outweigh the negatives.
Riding transit might make me more dependent at
times, but it is also blissfully liberating in so many ways.
For us anti-automobile folk, freedom is a monthly pass
and a good book.

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@utting_21: i
think it’s time
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great but there’s nothing
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Letters
Dear community and
management of the
Trails End Market (London, Ont.):
The actions of Trails
End Market
management in London
on Sept. 10 clearly
demonstrate discrimination and intolerance in
their most basic forms.
The London HBT (homophobia-biphobiatransphobia) Working
Group supports the
choice of those involved
to file a complaint with
the Ontario Human
Rights Commission
against Trails End.
The language and actions used to justify the
dismissal, or removal, of
a small family-run business from the Trails End
establishment are unethical and irresponsible.
The diversity of our
community enriches the
experiences of those
who choose to live, love
and play in our city and
also those who choose to
visit it. As citizens, we all
have a responsibility to
ensure that everyone’s
human rights are
upheld; all individuals
and groups, whether residents or visitors, should
feel welcome, wanted,
and safe in our community.
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WORKING GROUP

Juan Antonio
Hernandez tries
to touch a ﬂower
in order to feel its
temperature and
thus determine
the sunlight’s angle
as he prepares to
photograph the
ﬂower at a park in
Mexico City earlier
this month.

MARCO UGARTE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo of
the day

Hernandez is one of 30 visually impaired or blind people
learning photography with the help of the Mexico City
foundation Ojos Que Sienten, or Eyes That Feel.
METRO WORLD NEWS

WEIRD NEWS

Finally! A fish
tank that fits in
your pocket!
Introducing the world’s smallest
aquarium. Made of fibreglass and
measuring just 3 centimetres wide by
2.4 cm high and 1.4 cm deep, it can
rest on the palm of your hand. With
two teaspoons of water inside, this
tank boasts living algae and even contains miniscule baby danio-rerio fish.
Hailing from Omsk, Russia, nimblefingered miniaturist Anatoly Konenko
and his son Stanislav made this in

An itty-bitty ﬁsh tank

three weeks. The 57-year-old was the
first in Siberia to create what he calls
“microminiature” art. He claims to
have invented the technology of writing on very small grains of rice.
In 1996, Konenko was recognized
by Guinness for the world’s smallest
book — at 0.9 millimetres by 0.9 mm.
METRO WORLD NEWS

Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz are a happily married New York City couple seeking a simpler life in New England in Dream House.

Scene in brief

Director up in the clouds
Jim Sheridan tries to capture the intangible in his work New film Dream House
is a psychological thriller that’s a departure from his typical character drama fare

Taylor Lautner
received a noisy welcome at the
European premiere
of his latest film Abduction. He met fans
at the British Film Institute’s IMAX
screen in London
last night. A
Facebook campaign
ensured he’d
promote the movie
in the U.K., with
more than 79,000
supporters “liking”
the page on the site.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Shortly into my conversation with Irish filmmaker
Jim Sheridan I begin to understand what his daughter Kristen meant when
she said her father “exists
up in the clouds. In order
to communicate with him,
you have to go up into the
clouds yourself.”
When I mention the
quote to the Dream House
director he laughs and
tries to explain.
“I think that’s probably
true in relation to the way
I approach actors and sto-

Picking the “best” of the
three Transformers movies
is like choosing death by
firing squad, shark mauling or being crushed by
one of Wile E. Coyote’s giant anvils.
On reflection, I’d choose

ry. I know directors like
Tim Burton or David
Fincher, they‘re very structured
visually.
Then
there’s the approach that
says, ‘It’s emotional over
here.’
But emotions are invisible and it’s hard to catch
the invisible. Trying to
catch the invisible is very
interesting because it’s
just something that happens in front of you rather
than something that has
happened, as Hitchcock
said, and then I’m only
shooting it.”
A scheduled 10 minute
interview stretches into 35

minutes as the three time
Oscar nominee chats amiably about the movies he
thinks will eventually become classics — “the poetic ones that don’t make as
much sense” — on artistic
vision — “it’s a product of
interior emotion” — the
meaning of the Kubrick
film 2001 — “it’s a baptism!” — and, of course,
his new movie.
In Dream House real
life newlyweds Daniel
Craig and Rachel Weisz are
Will and Libby, a happily
married couple who leave
New York City for a simpler life in New England.

Of course, this is a thriller,
so their hopes for a happy
life are dashed when they
discover their new home
was the site of a grisly
murder.
“It’s a genre piece,” he
says.
“It’s a psychological
thriller with horror overtones and detective story
overtones, but essentially,
deep down it’s a love story.
It’s in the vein of A Beautiful Mind and Shutter Island. We’ve made the kind
of movie with thriller and
horror
elements,
but
women will like it.”
Sheridan may exist in

the clouds, but he is realistic about the state of the
movie business. The kind
of character dramas that
made him famous are
harder to get made these
days.
“One day, I don’t know
what day it was, maybe a
Thursday, about a year
ago, everybody decided
you couldn’t make a drama anymore,” he says. “I
think there was a surfeit of
independent movies when
there was a surfeit of money,” he says. In Ireland we
built too many houses, in
America we made too
many movies.”

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the anvil drop, which is
what the last 45 minutes of
Transformers: Dark of the
Moon feels like, as the good
alien robots (Autobots) and
bad alien robots (Decepticons) turn Chicago into a
scrapyard.
The overlong Transformers 3 is an improvement
over the incomprehensible
Transformers 2, which I’m
still in therapy for, and the
pokey original Transformers. This latest eruption
qualifies for “most revived
franchise” status, if only

because scripter Ehren
Kruger, the guilty pen behind Transformers 2, has
literally found the plot, any
plot.
This one ludicrously connects the 1969 Apollo 11
moon landing with Transformers lore — Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
secretly discover a smashed
Autobots spaceship on the
moon’s dark side — but at
least it’s a conspiracy theory we can follow.
The lunar find leads to
our sweaty teen hero Sam

Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf)
being reluctantly dragged
yet again into the Autobots
vs. Decepticons fray. But at
least he has a new girlfriend. She’s feisty rich girl
Carly, played by Rosie

Huntington-Whiteley, a former Victoria’s Secret model. Carly easily fills the gap
left by the departed Megan
Fox, who was bounced for
comparing Bay to Hitler.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

MJ’s kids may
take the stand
Case into the death of the late singer is looming

AARON LAMBERT-POOL/GETTY IMAGES

Michael Jackson’s two oldest children, Prince
Michael and Paris, are reportedly eager to take the
stand in the manslaughter
case of Dr. Conrad Murray,
the man accused of causing the pop star’s death,
according to Radar Online,
but their grandmother,
Katherine Jackson, is
resisting the idea.
“She knows how
traumatic it would be for
them, but both Prince
Michael and Paris have
said they want to tell the
jury what they saw on the
day their father died,” a
source says, adding that
Michael’s sister, La Toya
Jackson, isn’t opposed to
the idea.
“La Toya has said it
would be good for the children to ‘get what is inside
them out of them.’ She
feels it is a way for them to
release the hurt. Above all
though, she believes her
brother was murdered and
what Prince Michael and
Paris could tell the jury
would inevitably help convict the doctor.”

Celebrity tweets
@Joan_Rivers

Talking points

Von D, James
are ‘off’ again
BREAKUP. After breaking

off their engagement
over the summer and
then reconciling a
month later, Kat Von D
and Jesse James have
called it quits again.
“I am not in a
relationship,” Von D
posted on her Facebook
page. “And I apologize
for all the ‘back and
forth’ if it’s caused any
confusion.”
As for other things
the L.A. Ink star isn’t
doing, she added: “I am
not in any way moving
to Texas. I am not opening up another tattoo
shop. And I am not leaving my shop here in Los
Angeles, High Voltage
Tattoo.”
She’s also not
filming any more
episodes of her series,
which was recently
cancelled.
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Michael Jackson

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The thong thing to say
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Jennifer Garner’s third
pregnancy has led to some
unfortunate fashion-related
moments at home, she admits to Ellen DeGeneres,
describing a bathroom runin with her older daughter,
Violet.
“So the other day ...
(Violet) is in there with me
and all of the sudden she
went, ‘Oh Mom, we have
to have a talk,’” Garner remembers. “She said, ‘Mom,
your bottom has gotten so
big that your panties don’t
even begin to cover it.’” Unfazed, Garner tried to
explain things to her
daughter. “I said, ‘It’s called
a thong, you wear it when
you’re a grown up.’ She was
like, ‘Uh, that is so gross!’”
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You know
you’re getting older
when you
throw out your
back while buttering
scones.

Wills just can
wait to be king
done everything she possibly could to help, and that
she’s got no regrets and no
unfinished business.”
As for his own
future on the
throne?
“As I’m flying along in my
helicopter
through
the
mountains
of
Wales, I try desperately hard not
to think about it,”
says
William,
who is a rescue helicopter pilot.
“That can
wait until
I’m a bit
Prince William
older.”

Prince William, who is second in line to the British
throne, admits its current
occupier shows no signs
of stepping aside, according to the Daily
Mail.
“We do hint at taking some things off
her, but she won’t
have anything of it,”
he says of his 85-yearold grandmother, the
Queen of England.
“She’ll want
to
hand
over
knowing
she’s

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wellness

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life

New study shows

1
... drink a day
was linked to
greater overall
health in older
women in a
study conducted
by the Harvard
School of Public
Health. Women
who had one a
day at the age
of 58 had a 20
per cent chance
of “successful”
ageing. METRO

As the sun dips earlier and we spend less time outdoors, it’s time to think about other sources of vitamin D. Fatty ﬁsh is our best
natural source: think salmon, mackerel, sardines and tuna. And then there’s our grandmothers’ grimace-inducing favourite: cod liver oil.

Vitamin D — the sunshine
vitamin — got another
thumbs-up recently.
A small study in Oregon
found that children with
serious mental illnesses
are more likely to be deficient in vitamin D than
children with good mental
health. Researchers at the
Oregon Health & Science
University, led by Dr. Keith

Cheng, tested vitamin D
levels in 67 children (ranging from seven to 17) in a
psychiatric hospital. The
children had illnesses including anxiety disorder,
autism, disruptive disorder, mood disorder and
psychotic disorder. They
compared these to children in the general,
healthy population.
Vitamin D deficiency
was found in 21 per cent of
the inpatients, compared
with only 14 per cent in

The truth about colonics
Despite the cost of about
$100 per session, many
people swear by colon
hydrotherapy as a way to
lose weight and be
healthier. But as our
writer, Lesley Young,

healthy children. This is
not enough evidence to
say low vitamin D causes
mental illness, but the subject is worthy of further
study, said the authors.
This is a good reminder
to Canadian parents that
vitamin D is important, especially in the fall and
winter months, when children get less sun. Recognizing
this,
the
government has raised the
recommended daily allowance (RDA) for chil-

found out, there are some
myths — and some truths.
Here are just a few:
Myth #1: “It prevents constipation.” No, it doesn’t.
It can relieve it temporarily, but only when other
routes, such as dietary
changes, don’t work.
Myth #2: “It helps you

dren.
“As we go into October
2011, I am thrilled that the
RDA for children has gone
up three-fold, compared to
October last year,” says Dr.
Reinhold Vieth, director of
the bone and mineral laboratory at Mount Sinai Hospital and a professor at the
University of Toronto.
“Official
government
agencies are advising parents to provide children
with 600 I.U. vitamin D as
the average daily supply,

lose weight.” Any pounds
that might be lost are
gained back right after
the procedure, as soon as
you resume eating and
drinking.
Myth #3: “It permanently
rids us of bad bacteria.”
There’s a balance of good
and bad bacteria in our
colon, and a colonic re-

and I think that is excellent basic advice.”
Vieth notes that Vitamin D helps prevent rickets and may lower the risk
of influenza or allergy.
Some research shows vitamin D boosts mood and reduces risk of depression.
“Modern lifestyles are
generally sun-avoiding,”
he warns. “Of course there
is also less vitamin D-forming UVB sunlight available
the farther north one
goes.”

moves both kinds temporarily. Then, both repopulate soon afterward.
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Dear Mr. Butler,
I would value your opinion on
a point of etiquette/respect.
I’m in my mid-30s, but it has
usually been my practice to
rise when women enter or
leave the room, or arrive at or
leave the table during meals.
The only real exception to
this has been for very close
friends and family who would
be embarrassed by the
gesture. How should I
respond when a woman
insists that this gesture of respect for their sex is unnecessary, that I remain seated?
Also, should one dispense
with the practice when the
woman is constantly moving
to and from the table or the
room, while serving dinner or
otherwise going about her
hostess duties? Aron

Don’t forget: Etiquette is all about making
others feel comfortable in social situations.

Dear Aron,
The custom of a gentleman standing every time a
woman enters the room
and/or stands at the table is
rarely practised in today’s
modern world, but does remain common in formal
social situations. Remember that etiquette is all
about making others feel
comfortable in social situations. Therefore if a woman
asks you to please stop

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standing for her, I would respect her request. It also is
neither necessary nor appropriate to keep standing
for a hostess who has to
come and go from the table
while she is serving her
guests. Bravo for being a
gentleman, and one thing I
am absolutely sure about is
that chivalry is not dead!
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ASKCHARLESTHEBUTLER@
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TIPS FOR A WINGMAN
Dear column people,
My best friend’s a tool when
it comes to women, and I really don’t get it. We’re both
decent-looking guys with
good jobs and lots of conﬁdence. To top it oﬀ, he’s
probably seen every pick-up
video out there, but when it
comes to talking to women,
he can’t close the deal. He
tells me to hold him accountable when it comes to
getting numbers, and when
we’re on the way to a club
he’ll keep talking about how
psyched he is and how he’ll
do this or that, but once we
get there, he just stands
around and getting him to
approach a woman is almost
impossible. Any
suggestions?
Andrea: Dear BFF,

It sounds like you’re a
pretty good wingman.
Although holding him
accountable, monitoring
him, and pushing him can
be helpful at first, continuously doing so will take
away your effectiveness as
a motivator.

Think about it: he keeps
“failing” despite your
pushing, and nothing happens.
Why should he change?
Try a different tactic: before going out, have him
take out $50 from his bank
account and give it to you
to hold on to (increase the
amount if he’s wealthy).
If he gets a number that
night, he gets it back.
He does not get it back
(don’t spend it) until he
gets a number. Call it a
“date trust fund.”
Paying him will be a
positive association with

There is a funny phenomenon that says we often react in contrast to
those around us — in other words, your confidence
might actually bring out
his lack of confidence. I’m
not saying that’s the cause
of his un-Romeo-ness, but
maybe it’s time for another approach.
Maybe he should try
dating online — it will
give him more control
over the situation.
He can keep things light
for as long as he likes, and
use online chatting and
emails to get to know the
woman he eventually
chooses to meet.
It will allow him to
build
his
confidence,
which seems to be lacking.
Good luck!
TWO SISTERS, 20-SOMETHING ANDREA AND 30-SOMETHING CLAIRE,
OFFER THEIR DIFFERING VIEWS ON
YOUR RELATIONSHIP ISSUES.

Beyoncé is not slowing down during pregnancy
GETTY IMAGES

Now that Beyoncé is pregnant, there are certain
smells that turn her stomach.
“My nose, I smell everything from a mile away,”
Beyoncé said during an interview with The Associated Press while wearing a
long, flowing purple dress,
her baby bump showing.
“Usually it is food, it is

Beyoncé

onions or something that I
just can’t tolerate.”
Her new fragrance is not
one of them. Last week, Beyoncé was busy promoting
Pulse, her third scent.
For the creator of girlpower anthems like Single
Ladies (Put a Ring on It) and
Run the World (Girls), Pulse
represents another extension of that theme.

Does pregnancy make you
feel more empowered?

What is next on your bucket
list?

Absolutely. It is the most
powerful creation for you
to be able to have life growing inside of you. There is
no bigger gift, nothing
more empowering.

Balance. I am still working
on balance and still growing. I am starting my company, my label. I want to
create a boy band. I want to
continue to produce and do
documentaries and music
videos. I eventually want to
start directing for other
artists. Once I know that I

You have the fragrance, the
clothing line, a husband, career and a baby on the way.

have my stuff together and
I trust that, I can do it for
other artists.
You are pregnant but work
nonstop. How do you keep
your energy up?

I think it is just passion.
When you are excited
about something, you don’t
have to think about your
energy. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Swooning for Thaifoon
Upscale and designed for a young, trendy demographic, guests will be
charmed by the style and flavours of this authentic Thai restaurant
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Lunch
at
Thaifoon is
sublimely
charming.
The service is
prompt and
courteous, the earthy style
of the decor is beautiful,
and the food is exotic and
savoury.
Seated quickly on the
long banquet, I am provided with an optimal view of
the well decorated restaurant. Thai-inspired brickwork, bamboo and natural
earthtones play up the
meal’s authenticity.
Our appetizers arrive
quickly. Lemongrass Mussels ($11) are steamed in a
tasty green curry broth,
soaking up a rich flavour.

I keep reading news about a slowdown in the
US economy – should I sell my investments?
A: Money in America? Is that an oxymoron?
B: You should invest! You can’t get the ups without going
through the downs.
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When I was
21 I bought
my
first
house.
I’d
worked hard
over
four
years to squirrel away
enough money for a small
down payment. Before too
long, however, I ran right
into an extremely common
trap: home poverty. Basically, all I could afford was my
house! It took eight months
for my monthly cash flow
to ‘level out’ and finally feel
like I had two nickels to rub
together again.
Home poverty happens
when after the mortgage,
insurance and utilities are
paid, there’s little money
left over for RRSP contributions, home maintenance,
car repairs, vacations, etc.
A person’s cash flow is
further jolted with the initial costs of moving expenses, legal fees, closing costs,
cleaning supplies and much
more.
Avoid feeling house poor
by preparing for home ownership well in advance of

buying. Figure out what you
can afford based on your
current income, not what
you hope your income will
be in the future. Use online
mortgage calculators (available through any bank) or
talk to a mortgage broker.
If your credit score is in
good shape, banks will approve a mortgage amount
that translates into monthly housing payments (mortgage, insurance, taxes and
heating combined) that are
less than 32 per cent of your
gross monthly income. If
you’ve got other debts, your
borrowing limit is reduced.
Just because you can
qualify for a huge mortgage
doesn’t mean you should
take one! Less debt almost
always translates into less
stress.
Feeling squeezed? Buy a
less expensive home. Better
yet, wait it out. Economists
continue to believe interest
rates will remain low in the
near future and home
prices competitive; resulting in a ‘buyer’s market’.
While you wait, continue
to save towards your down
payment and live ‘as if’ you
owned a home. This means
adhering to a tight budget
that resembles what you’ll
actually face when you’re
ready to buy.

The Winnipeg Jets thrilled a capacity crowd in St. John’s with a 3-1 pre-season
win over the Ottawa Senators yesterday. Mark Scheifele and Troy Bodie scored a
pair of unanswered goals in the second period for the Jets as the badly out-shot
Senators struggled to respond. Ben Maxwell added the other goal for Winnipeg.
Ottawa got on the board in the third period as Mika Zibanejad stuffed one in on
Jets netminder Ondrej Pavelec.

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Colts’ QB crisis gets worse
Indy owner denies Manning out for season
Peyton Manning is out,
Kerry Collins is hurt and
Curtis Painter isn’t sure if
he’ll be starting next
week.
It was another messy
Monday in Indianapolis.
Less than 13 hours after
a third straight loss, the
Colts’
quarterback
carousel spun wildly —
team officials denied a report Manning was lost for
the season, declined to say

whether Collins had suffered a concussion and
side-stepped the issue of
adding another quarterback to the roster.
“It just depends on the
situation and we’ll address
it as we go,” coach Jim
Caldwell said. “We have to
look at all the possibilities,
and it’s our job to cover all
those bases.”
Manning is expected to
miss at least five more

Collins treated for injury

weeks and perhaps the
season after having neck
surgery Sept. 8, his third
in 19 months.
Collins didn’t talk to reporters yesterday because
he was receiving injury
treatment. Caldwell said
Collins was forced out of
Sunday night’s game because of concussion-like
symptoms and that he was
still
being
evaluated.
Collins also missed prac-

Crosby continues to
move toward contact
Sidney Crosby believes he is
getting closer to being
cleared for contact.
The Pittsburgh Penguins’
star was pleased after going
through another troublefree practice yesterday, a
day after taking part in a
scrimmage in which hits
were banned.
“Obviously, the more
good days you have, the

“Right now I feel
good. When it’s
ready to get to that
point (contact), I
want to make sure
I’m comfortable
and conﬁdent.”
SIDNEY CROSBY

nearer you get, and, hopefully, we’ll get there short-

ly,” said Crosby, who is recovering from a concussion.
Crosby, who hasn’t
played since Jan. 5, has not
yet been officially ruled out
for the Oct. 6 opener at Vancouver. However, it seems
highly unlikely he will be
ready by then as he has yet
to take part in any contact
work. THE CANADIAN PRESS

tice time last week with a
sore throwing shoulder.
The only other quarterback on Indy’s active roster is the tough-luck
backup Painter who hasn’t
been told whether he’ll
get his first career start
next Monday at Tampa
Bay.
“I’m not sure,” he said.
“I’m sure we’ll find out
more in the next couple of
days.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Sports in brief

Lightning
roster begins
to take shape
NBL. The London

Lightning have
announced five players
who will start the season
on their National Basketball League of Canada
roster.
Guard Brandon Dean
from Monroe, La., point
guard DeAnthony Bow-

Irsay covers bases
on Manning
Colts owner Jim Irsay
reportedly told attendees
at a private breakfast with
Super Bowl donors yesterday morning that Peyton
Manning would miss the
rest of the season.
A few hours later, Irsay
wrote this on Twitter: “I didn’t say Peyton out 4season
FOR SURE, keeping him on
ActiveRoster n taking it
month by month/Outside
chance of return n December possible.”

den from Hammond,
Ind., guard Eddie Smith
from Springfield, Ill., forward Gabe Freeman
from Southern Utah and
first-round pick Tyrone
Levett from Notasulga,
Ala., will suit up for the
Lightning when they
take on Halifax in
London Nov. 3.
Season tickets are on
sale at the John Labatt
Centre box office or
johnlabattcentre.com.
For more information
on the London Lightning
visit
lightningbasketball.ca.
METRO

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Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy
Reid said yesterday that a CT
scan showed
Michael Vick’s
injured right
hand is bruised,
not broken, as
originally
thought.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

2

The New Jersey
Devils
announced Scott
Niedermayer’s
No. 27 will be retired Dec. 16.
THE CANADIAN PRESS

3

Italian club Virtus Bologna has
clarified that its
top offer to Los
Angeles Laker
Kobe Bryant is a
one-year, $5 million US deal.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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You can now post your kiss,
and read even more kisses,
online at
metronews.ca/kiss.
You
Come back and stay! Miss
you, love you!
FROM THIS FIRE NEVER GOES OUT

Lovely Your Love ZJright Do
you not know that your
glance is very sharp…Sweetie! ...Uh!... Moreover, your
glances could slash the light
from all candles and light
bulbs in the church on last
Saturday…Sweetie! I am just
kidding…! Hold your faith in
God and keep praying;
Surely, God will help the
whole world and all of us
through this dismal economy. You are right and smart
to use a quote: “There is only happiness in life, to love
and be loved.” Yet, love usually encounters challenges
from reality that is not easy
to perceive it in order to
have happiness. Thank you
for your beautiful thoughts
to me. Have good day with
sealing a kiss.

trying to control each and every situation you find yourself in and let
fate take its course.
Taurus April 21-May 21 Try to
take things a bit easier on the work
front. Slow down.
Gemini May 22-June 21 Be
fair in the way you deal with other
people and always try to help them
get the best from whatever situations you are jointly involved in.
Cancer June 22-July 22 If you
can remember that some people
are emotional and easily hurt then

FROM FROM: MIZZ: JULIET

Yesterday’s answer

For today’s crossword answers
and for expanded horoscopes,
go to metronews.ca

Today’s horoscope
Aries March 21-April 20 Stop

Yesterday’s answer

you won’t go far wrong today.
Leo July 23-Aug.23 If you can
get away from the daily grind you
should do so.
Virgo Aug. 24- Sept. 22 Go
with the flow and let events work
themselves out in their own way
and time.
Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 23 There is
a new moon in your sign today, so
you won’t have any trouble getting
what you want.

Scorpio Oct. 24-Nov. 22
Don’t be afraid to take advantage
of a business or financial opportunity that pops up out of nowhere.

Fill in the grid, so that every
row, every column and
every 3x3 box contains the
digits 1-9. There is no math
involved. You solve the
puzzle with reasoning and
logic.

ANDY CARPENEAN/ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CINDY YAMANAKA/ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER,

Caption contest

Sagittarius Nov. 23-Dec.
21 You will be amazed how easily

and you get things done today.

Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 20
The best way to deal with your
problems is to pretend they do not
exist.

Aquarius Jan. 21-Feb. 18
Today’s new moon in Libra makes
this the ideal time to clarify your
life goals.

Providing an Affordable Choice
At just 13.5 cents kWh, wind
energy is cost competitive
with new conventional
sources of electricity –
and wind energy costs
are projected to
decrease further.2

Adam Kyle and
Mike Gallagher,
Workers at Wolfe
Island Wind Facility

WORKING FOR A STRONGER, CLEANER AND AFFORDABLE ENERGY SYSTEM
1 The Economic Impacts of the Wind Energy Sector in Ontario
2011 – 2018, by ClearSky Advisors
http://www.canwea.ca/wind-energy/talkingaboutwind_e.php
2 Behind the Switch: Pricing Ontario Electricity Options,
by the Pembina Institute
http://www.pembina.org/media-release/2237

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OR $1 OFF ‘WOMEN WILL LIKE IT’ JIM SHERIDAN ON HIS THRILLER DREAM HOUSE {page 8} More than 100 people, many of them H.B. Beal Secondary School students, led a march through downtown yesterday to protest police use of a stun gun on a 17-year-old Beal student during a fight Thursday Students are calling the action ‘police brutality’ {page 2} Tuesday, September 27, 2011 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing. with the purchase of 2 regular fountain drinks ANGELA MULLINS/METRO